Full Freeview on the Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmitter which serves 94,000 homes. The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong, dark green areas are poorer signals. Those parts shown in yellow may have interference on the same frequency from other masts.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Midhurst (West Sussex, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which Freeview channels does the Midhurst transmitter broadcast?
If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow this Freeview reset procedure first.Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Midhurst (West Sussex, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Midhurst transmitter?
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 51km west-southwest (256°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 41km west-southwest (248°)
to ITV Meridian (South Coast) region - 39 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford
How will the Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 16 Oct 2019 | |||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | K T | |||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C33 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C34 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C35 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C36 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C48 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
| C54tv_off | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C55tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||
| C56tv_off | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||||
| C58tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C59tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ||||||
| C61 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C62 | SDN | ||||||||
| C68 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W T
waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 29 Feb 12 and 14 Mar 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| Mux C* | (-16dB) 2.5kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 2kW | |
| Mux D* | (-20dB) 1000W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Midhurst transmitter area
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Saturday, 26 May 2018
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Peter Simpson6:21 PM
Les Allwood:
Hi Les,
Very glad that your recorder is now working properly again! Sounds like your experience was the same as mine, no firmware update but it has just started working properly. I agree, Freeview must have changed something in the data stream to make this work.
Similar problems have occurred on other transmitters in the past and they have miraculously gone away just as ours has. It does make you question whether Freeeview is capable of learning from its mistakes though!
Regards, Peter
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Pete Forman6:30 PM
My DMR130 is working again. I can pause, record live and timer record on all channels. I needed to retune but that was because I was using Heathfield for PSB3 as a workaround.
The only hiccup was that after the Panasonic software had updated itself I could not access Prog Check or Function Menu. Cycling power, leaving it disconnected for a few minutes, fixed that.
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Sunday, 27 May 2018
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Joe B10:35 PM
All working for me too. I also got the e-mail from Freeview but I'm equally in the dark about what exactly was fixed.
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Monday, 28 May 2018
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G Draper10:15 AM
Liphook
I seem to be getting pixillation and lost signals on many channels, starting on thursday last. I have retuned three times without any improvement. BBC and ITY are the worst. I have a roof aerial pointing to Midhurst. Post code GU30 7SG, only 7 miles from Midhurst
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StevensOnln111:08 AM
G Draper: Retuning will never fix a weak signal as your TV was already correctly tuned. Have you checked for any loose or damaged cables or connections behind your TV?
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Charles Burlison-Rush1:31 PM
Horsham
DigitalUK website is reporting possible weak signal from Midhurst transmitter. I have been having the same in Southwater (nr Horsham). Mostly BBC will be fine one minute then loss of signal occurs for a period of time then comes back. Other channels have been affected but BBC seems to be worst. Looking at the TV signal strength that was showing a very dodgy signal strength but ok at the minute.
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Monday, 18 June 2018
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John Nice1:40 PM
Are there any plans to add FV 94 - US PBS - to Midhurst?
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StevensOnln12:05 PM
John Nice: PBS America is broadcast on the COM8 multiplex which (along with COM7) is a temporary service available from 30 main transmitter covering around 70% of UK households. There are no plans to expand coverage to any additional transmitters, with COM7 & COM8 being expected to close within the next few years. None of the broadcasters on COM7/8 have yet announced what will happen to their channels on Freeview when the temporary muxes close.
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Wednesday, 27 June 2018
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Charles 9:50 PM
Horsham
Reception from Midhurst to Southwater seems at up and down at the moment for the BBCA mux, anyone else got a problem with picture breakup?
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Thursday, 28 June 2018
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Pete Forman12:13 PM
Charles: I saw BBC B (HD channels & Film4+1) drop out last night. There is no engineering bulletin here so I presume it is down to atmospherics.
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